A Guide to the Virginia Agricultural and Mechanical College and Polytechnic Institute Board of Visitors Record 1920 Virginia Agricultural and Mechanical College and Polytechnic Institute Board of Visitors. Record Ms2003-026

A Guide to the Virginia Agricultural and Mechanical College and Polytechnic Institute Board of Visitors Record 1920

A Collection in
Special Collections
Collection Number Ms2003-026

Special Collections, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

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Processed by: Tamara Kennelly Special Collections Staff
© 2003 By Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

Repository

Special Collections, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

Collection number

Ms2003-026

Title

Virginia Agricultural and Mechanical College and Polytechnic Institute Board of Visitors Record 1920

Physical Characteristics

1 container, 1 leaf, 0.1 cu. ft.

Collector

The Virginia Agricultural and Mechanical College and Polytechnic Institute Board of Visitors Record was donated to the Special Collections in 1993.

Language

English

Abstract

Affidavit of oath of office sworn by members of the Board of Visitors of Virginia Agricultural and Mechanical College and Polytechnic Institute to fulfill their duties and offices. Additional signed oath states that members have not and will not send or accept challanges to duel.

Administrative Information

Access

Collection is open to research.

Use Restrictions

Permission to publish material from the Virginia Agricultural and Mechanical College and Polytechnic Institute Board of Visitors Record must be obtained from the Special Collections, Virginia Tech.

Preferred Citation

Virginia Agricultural and Mechanical College and Polytechnic Institute Board of Visitors Record, Ms2003-026, Special Collections, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University.

Processing Information

The processing, arrangement, and description of the Virginia Agricultural and Mechanical College and Polytechnic Institute Board of Visitors Record commenced in and was completed in November, 2003.

Biographical/Historical Information

J. Thompson Brown, J. B. Watkins, Robert Beverley, and Meade Ferguson signed the affidavit. Oaths were sworn to and subscribed before John Crosby, N.P. According to the 1921 Annual Catalog, the terms of these four were all to expire on June 30, 1924. John Thompson Brown was rector of the Board of Visitors.

Scope and Content Information

Sworn affadavit signed by the members of the Board of Visitors of the Virginia Agricultural and Mechanical College and Polytechnic Institute that they are citizens of the Commonwealth of Virginia and that they will faithfully and impartially discharge their duties. A second oath indicates that the undersigned have not sent or accepted challanges to duel in the past and will not do so in the future. Affadavit was signed October 8, 1920.

Arrangement

This collection is arranged chronologically.